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Footers are going bye-bye, birdies

Junkies, don’t hit a brotha, but I’ve made a decision to eliminate the graphical footers. While they are awesome for the site regulars, I think they take up too much vertical space and hide the actual content y’all are posting. In addition, I think they are probably intimidating to brand-new visitors, who have to search a thread to see the actually discussion points.

Footers were fun, but it’s time for us to further streamline the comments. The bottom line is that even I have to look carefully to see what you’re actually saying. We want your pearls of wisdom to pop off the page and encourage others to reply.

re: Gang pages…. That would be AWESOME, but if it’s not possible, maybe we could have a ‘Gangs’ section in the forum menu (like the individual book listings, for example) and start individual threads for each gang/club? That way we could explain where the gangs came from and if newbies are wondering what it’s all about, they could easily find the information and/or ask questions?

I’m all for gang pages but IMHO I wouldn’t want to exclude anyone from the page. I think putting peoples names who are members of the gang at the top is OK but let anyone who wants to, join in the conversation. Now how do I get in the Gutter Sisteren gang? Does it help that my Sis is a part of it???

BUT… if we could have gang/group pages that would bloody rawk… would be a great compromise between the old site intimacy and the new site professionalism and give extra meaning to being invited to be part of one of these sub-groups.

What would you guys think of a page for each of the various gangs? I’d have to talk to Kovacs and the BackMyBooks guys to see if we could pull it off. I’m not sure about access privileges, but we could put the gang member names on that page.